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Chris Markl

15 posts
Reading Headlines Is Not Being Informed
Outrage Machine

Reading Headlines Is Not Being Informed

A headline can tell you what to feel before it tells you what happened. Reading it is not the same as understanding reality.

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4 Min
By: Chris Markl
A Taco Can Just Be a Taco
Culture Rot

A Taco Can Just Be a Taco

Modern culture keeps turning ordinary preferences into identity, morality, politics, and personal salvation. Sometimes a taco can just be a taco.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
The Guru Economy Keeps Selling Certainty
Knowledge Grift

The Guru Economy Keeps Selling Certainty

The modern guru does not just sell advice. The modern guru sells relief from uncertainty.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
Luxury Is Not Liberation
Culture Rot

Luxury Is Not Liberation

Expensive taste can be fun. It becomes delusional when consumption is sold as freedom, empowerment, and personal transcendence.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
The Dumbest Take in the News Today
Outrage Machine

The Dumbest Take in the News Today

A recurring format for the take so confident, so stupid, and so perfectly optimized for attention that it deserves a small civic autopsy.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
The Beneficiary Photo Problem
Helping Industry

The Beneficiary Photo Problem

The people being helped should not become props in the helper’s story.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
Impact Reports Are Not Impact
Helping Industry

Impact Reports Are Not Impact

A beautiful report can tell a good story. It cannot prove that anyone’s life actually got better.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, Again
Savior Politics

The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, Again

Every election becomes the final battle for civilization. Somehow civilization keeps having another final battle two years later.

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4 Min
By: Chris Markl
Celebrity Is Not Expertise
Culture Rot

Celebrity Is Not Expertise

Fame is not wisdom. A large audience does not make someone a guide to politics, health, morality, or the meaning of life.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
The Cloud Is Not a Cloud
Corporate Dystopia

The Cloud Is Not a Cloud

AI may feel weightless on a screen, but the future has a physical address.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
Your Sports Team Does Not Love You
Culture Rot

Your Sports Team Does Not Love You

Sports can be beautiful. But a billionaire owned franchise is not your family, your church, or your civic identity.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl
AI Will Save Everything, Apparently
Corporate Dystopia

AI Will Save Everything, Apparently

Every era has a salvation technology. Right now, artificial intelligence is being asked to rescue almost everything.

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3 Min
By: Chris Markl

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